Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another’s sorrow.—­Aaron hill.

Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.—­Thomas Paine.

Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature’s mark to know an honest heart by.—­Aaron hill.

Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet.—­H.W.  Shaw.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.—­Psalm 126:5.

Every tear is a verse, and every heart is a poem.—­Marc Andre.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. 
—­Psalm 30:5.

Temper.—­The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.—­La ROCHEFOUCAULD.

In vain he seeketh others to suppress,
Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue. 
—­Spenser.

With “gentleness” in his own character, “comfort” in his house, and “good temper” in his wife, the earthly felicity of man is complete.  —­From the German.

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.—­Blair.

Too many have no idea of the subjection of their temper to the influence of religion, and yet what is changed, if the temper is not?  If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, moody, or morose after his conversion as before it, what is he converted from or to?—­John Angell James.

If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man’s enmity needlessly; since any man’s love may be useful, and every man’s hatred is dangerous.—­Isaac Barrow.

A sunny temper gilds the edges of life’s blackest cloud.—­Guthrie.

Temperance.—­Temperance puts wood on the fire, meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money in the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the house, clothes on the back, and vigor in the body.—­Franklin.

Fools! not to know how far an humble lot
Exceeds abundance by injustice got;
How health and temperance bless the rustic swain,
While luxury destroys her pamper’d train. 

          
                          —­Hesiod.

Men live best on moderate means:  Nature has dispensed to all men wherewithal to be happy, if mankind did but understand how to use her gifts.—­CLAUDIAN.

Temperance is a virtue which casts the truest lustre upon the person it is lodged in, and has the most general influence upon all other particular virtues of any that the soul of man is capable of; indeed so general, that there is hardly any noble quality or endowment of the mind, but must own temperance either for its parent or its nurse; it is the greatest strengthener and clearer of reason, and the best preparer of it for religion, the sister of prudence, and the handmaid to devotion.—­Dean South.